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METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
5///Avenue at 82///Street • New York
ForRe/ease
Tuesday, October 18,1949
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART 1949 CHRISTMAS CARDS ON SALE
Early holiday shoppers at The Metropolitan Museum of Art will now find on
sale twenty-seven new Christmas cards, with subjects drawn from the Museum's
extensive collection of art treasures.
A Christmas catalogue, available upon request, illustrates and describes
each of the cards, which range in price from 5 to 20 cents. Among the unusual
cards this year is a Muhammadan Angel from a Persian drawing, reproduced in
black and white. Bringing in the Boar's Head is a bright amusing card, printed
in brown line on yellow, from an illustration by Randolph Caldecott in "Old
Christmas" by Washington Irving. A kitten at play, a detail from a Chinese
scroll painting; an early nineteenth-century French engraving of a fashionable
young lady in skating costume and a lithograph, Deer in Moonlight by William
Morris Hunt, are other subjects reproduced.
Traditional cards with religious themes are also well represented by
The Flight into Egypt, from a Venetian woodcut; Saint Anthony of Padua, and the
Christ Child from a paper cutout made by Brother Estevan Torresano in Guatemala
in 1771; and Bells, a detail of a Spanish woven silk of the sixteenth century.
Useful and decorative cards in the form of bookmarks include patterns of
forget-me-nots and poppies, both derived from etched designs for embroidery;
Kneeling Angels, a detail of an Italian silk of the mid-fifteenth century and
Antelope among Rocks, from the border of an Indian miniature of the seventeenth
:;entury.
Reproductions of several small decorative sculptures in the Museum collection, including bronzes, marbles, jades, ivories and several early terracottas
are also for sale at the Museum's Art and Book Shop. Nine of these casts are
illustrated in the catalogue, and a complete list of all casts for sale is available upon request.
Among other gift suggestions listed in the Christmas catalogue is Spring
Festival on the River, a Chinese scroll painting, reproduced in its entirety and
original size in a portfolio of 23 monochrome plates and 12 enlarged details.
This was selected as one of the Fifty Books of the Year in 1948 by The American
Institute of Graphic Arts.
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NOTE: A limited number of sample cards are available for press review.

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METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
5///Avenue at 82///Street • New York
ForRe/ease
Tuesday, October 18,1949
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART 1949 CHRISTMAS CARDS ON SALE
Early holiday shoppers at The Metropolitan Museum of Art will now find on
sale twenty-seven new Christmas cards, with subjects drawn from the Museum's
extensive collection of art treasures.
A Christmas catalogue, available upon request, illustrates and describes
each of the cards, which range in price from 5 to 20 cents. Among the unusual
cards this year is a Muhammadan Angel from a Persian drawing, reproduced in
black and white. Bringing in the Boar's Head is a bright amusing card, printed
in brown line on yellow, from an illustration by Randolph Caldecott in "Old
Christmas" by Washington Irving. A kitten at play, a detail from a Chinese
scroll painting; an early nineteenth-century French engraving of a fashionable
young lady in skating costume and a lithograph, Deer in Moonlight by William
Morris Hunt, are other subjects reproduced.
Traditional cards with religious themes are also well represented by
The Flight into Egypt, from a Venetian woodcut; Saint Anthony of Padua, and the
Christ Child from a paper cutout made by Brother Estevan Torresano in Guatemala
in 1771; and Bells, a detail of a Spanish woven silk of the sixteenth century.
Useful and decorative cards in the form of bookmarks include patterns of
forget-me-nots and poppies, both derived from etched designs for embroidery;
Kneeling Angels, a detail of an Italian silk of the mid-fifteenth century and
Antelope among Rocks, from the border of an Indian miniature of the seventeenth
:;entury.
Reproductions of several small decorative sculptures in the Museum collection, including bronzes, marbles, jades, ivories and several early terracottas
are also for sale at the Museum's Art and Book Shop. Nine of these casts are
illustrated in the catalogue, and a complete list of all casts for sale is available upon request.
Among other gift suggestions listed in the Christmas catalogue is Spring
Festival on the River, a Chinese scroll painting, reproduced in its entirety and
original size in a portfolio of 23 monochrome plates and 12 enlarged details.
This was selected as one of the Fifty Books of the Year in 1948 by The American
Institute of Graphic Arts.
-000-
NOTE: A limited number of sample cards are available for press review.